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Death Metal Amorphis

Mr. Gregory

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Ahh, Amorphis - the band that started it all (for me). They started out doing traditional death metal with strictly harsh vocals, but they eventually shifted towards melodic death metal with a mixture of clean singing and growls. Their lyrics used to be primarily drawn from the Kalevala, the Epic Poem of Finland, but they abandoned this approach from their album Circle onwards. They were the very first metal band I ever got into. The story goes a little something like this:

In December of 2011, the year my dad died, I was still listening to strictly hard and alternative rock. I really liked it, but I wanted to hear something that more accurately reflected my mood at the time, something just a little harder and darker than my usual fare (which, at this time, was primarily Alter Bridge and Thrice). One day I sat down and started scrolling through Amazon's metal section, and everything was just so over the top and scary. I mean, some of the covers looked violent. When I listened to the samples of various albums, I heard crazed, angry screaming which could only have been about killing, worshipping Satan, etc., since that's all metal was to me at that point in time. Still, I was bound and determined to find something, so I kept scrolling. Eventually I stumbled upon these two album covers:

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The artwork immediately caught my eye and convinced me to check out the samples. I was amazed when I heard much harder riffs than I had ever heard up to that point, but clean singing. Yes, Tomi Joutsen did some growling too, but his growls weren't nearly as scary as the rest of what I had heard, and I could actually understand most of what he was saying, so I took a chance and bought both of those albums and Eclipse. Upon first listen, I was awestruck. This new music I had discovered was so much harder than what I was used to, yet it was so sad at the same time. It was exactly what I was looking for.

Battle for Light (from The Beginning of Times)

Sky is Mine (from Skyforger)

I don't listen to Amorphis as much as I used to, but anytime they release a new album, I buy it and end up loving it. I think everything they've done from Eclipse (which is when Tomi Joutsen became their lead singer) onwards is excellent. There's definitely some depth to their music and they often bring in other instruments like a flute and a sitar, but they're generally about simple, accessible, good melodies. Nothing wrong with that.

Here's a good song from Circle.


And here's the first single from Queen of Time, which I posted in another thread.

 
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Mr. Gregory

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Nuclear Blast just released another new video today from the upcoming Queen Of Time due to drop May 18, 2018.. Wrong Direction



I Give it a...:skull::skull::skull::skull::skull:
I downloaded that song off of Amazon while I was typing up this thread and was just about to go listen to it. I love it. They are so friggin' good. :)

I'm picking up a slight hint of a proggy vibe with these two singles. Definitely looking forward to the album now.
 

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today I listened to The Karelian Isthmus. I didn't mind the cookie monster vocals, which I usually don't care much for especially if they are a screaming cookie monster. I could understand what he was saying, at least.




The album artwork is fascinating.

From what I gathered when reading about this album, the guys were really young when they put out this album. It's actually really good music behind the cookie monster......

Karelia/The Gathering.....awesome Celtic opening.
 

Mr. Gregory

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Here's another song from The Beginning of Times that immediately resonated with me.

You I Need

And here's the title track from Skyforger...friggin' awesome, as is that entire album.

 
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Mr. Gregory

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I updated some dead video links, as I've been doing in other threads I've created. Battle for Light is back up - it's finally on their official YouTube channel! :tup:
 

Riff_Raff

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Love them. I loved once they adopted more melodies and progressive music into their sound. One of those bands that are now very contrast to their first album or 2. Others being bands like Anathema and Katatonia that also had deathy doom type material early in their careers before adopting more of a cleaner, proggy direction.
 

Riff_Raff

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Feb 11, 2022 Amorphis new album Halo comes out.

The track listing for the effort is as follows:
01. Northwards
02. On The Dark Waters
03. The Moon
04. Windmane
05. A New Land
06. When The Gods Came
07. Seven Roads Come Together
08. War
09. Halo
10. The Wolf
11. My Name Is Night

 

Mr. Gregory

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Halo is yet another excellent album in a long list of excellent Amorphis albums. These guys have just gotten better and better as time has gone on. It's crazy.

 

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